A Beautiful Blue Death (Charles Lenox Series #1) » (First Edition)

Charles Finch is a graduate of Yale and Oxford. His first novel, A Beautiful Blue Death, was named one of Library Journal’s Best Books of 2007, one of only five mystery novels on the list. He lives in New York.

Equal parts Sherlock Holmes, Gosford Park, and P.G. Wodehouse, this debut mystery introduces a wonderfully appealing gentleman detective in Victorian London who investigates crime as a diversion from his life of leisure.

The Washington Post - Kevin Allman

Charles Finch's first novel breaks no ground in the venerable Victorian mystery tradition, but it's a fine specimen of the genre, due mostly to Finch's detective, the affable Charles Lenox…Finch hews to all the conventions of the traditional Victorian, including craftsmanlike plotting and an excellent foil, the bumbling, blustering Inspector Exeter of Scotland Yard.